Ostrowski…no secret
1. Prepare all figures – assemble & glue on base
2. add base mix (sand & grit)
3. Prime all figures in one go
The trick is to do lots in one go…
4. For the cavalry I then painted all the horses in their base colours, painted tails and manes, tack and saddle cloths. No shading just block colours. For 60 horses this took about 4 hours. That's about 4 minutes per horse. Each horse only has four colours. To create some variety I added white socks and noses on finished horses.
5. Riders – again block painted a regiment (12 figures) at a time. Each rider has about 6 colours and total time was about 30 second each colour – that make 3 minutes per rider – 36 minutes for all riders. Add faffing around time and you get to about an hour. Five regiments = 5 hours
6. Once all riders painted – paint on dip (60 figures – 45 minutes) – leave to dry for 24 hours
7. Matt Varnish – paint on varnish (45 minutes)
8. Paint base , drybrush base, add static grass (two hours)
Total time c13 hours (excludes preparation/set up and clearing up)
equivalent of 13 minutes/per mount and rider – as I said the trick is to do lots of figures in one go.
